Ann Kinkade 

 Ann Kinkade brings over two decades of business experience, working exclusively with business-owning families in a variety of contexts for the last 16 years.

In 2013, Ms. Kinkade launched Lucid Legacy Consulting. Her private practice includes advising family enterprises, facilitating family meetings, coaching one-on-one with executives who desire growth and change, and writing, speaking, and training on a variety of family enterprise topics to audiences of all sizes. In 2014, after 350 hours of training, she earned Certification as an Executive Coach.

Ms. Kinkade is committed to the family enterprise field as a vocation and has developed, presented, and led numerous conferences and educational seminars both domestically and internationally. Topics have included: governance, leadership, communication and conflict, succession, interpersonal and family relations, life stage development, and public policy/public image challenges faced by family firms.

She has been awarded the Family Firm Institute’s (FFI) Certificate in Family Business Advising, and is also recognized as an FFI Fellow. She has served on several family business and nonprofit boards, and has authored several articles that have been published in trade magazines, Fortune Small Business and The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Kinkade has been a guest on regional radio shows and has reviewed three published family business books and numerous published articles.

Ms. Kinkade’s prior work experience includes launching Family Enterprise USA (FEUSA), the nation’s first nonprofit, membership advocacy group dedicated to addressing family enterprise public image and public policy issues. As its founding CEO and President, she executed the nation’s first public policy survey of family firms and developed the first forum for family firms to convene in Washington D.C. with federally-elected policy makers, among other organizational initiatives.

Prior to this, Ms. Kinkade demonstrated her passion and commitment to the family enterprise field at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There she successfully built a highly-regarded, university-based membership organization, and developed and taught the university’s first course in Family Enterprise Ownership.

Education

• Masters of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Bachelor’s of Arts, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison